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    "The Professor of Practical Jokes" is a literary fairy tale published in 1898 by British suffragist and author Evelyn Sharp (1829–1955). The story tells...
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  • some countries, April 1 or April Fools' Day is marked by practical jokes. Notable practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web...
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  • Hugh Troy (category Lists of practical jokes)
    receiving a degree due to a particular joke that offended the administration. Although many of his practical jokes on campus are legendary, university historians...
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    humour, practical jokes, slapstick and anecdotes. Identified as one of the simple forms of oral literature by the Dutch linguist André Jolles, jokes are passed...
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    short stories. Evelyn Sharp was born in 1869 and was the ninth of eleven children. She had three years of schooling in London, where she made her living. Evelyn's...
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  • inserted jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1. The company ceased performing April Fools jokes in 2020...
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  • with a major title by the name For All Practical Purposes: Mathematical Literacy in Today's World. There is also a profound joke about FAPP. An elementary...
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  • Josiah S. Carberry (category Practical jokes)
    fictional professor, created as a joke in 1929. He is said to still teach at Brown University, and to be known for his work in "psychoceramics", the supposed...
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    Aidan Quinn (category American people of Irish descent)
    but also worked as a bookkeeper and in the travel business, and his father, Michael Quinn, was a professor of English literature at Rock Valley College...
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  • the story Chhadobeshi by writer Upendranath Ganguly.[citation needed] The story revolves around a newly married professor, who plays a practical joke...
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    British humour (redirect from British jokes)
    that seems unkind in the eyes of other cultures. Jokes are told about everything and almost no subject is off-limits, though a lack of subtlety when discussing...
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  • literature, created in 1972 as in-house practical joke, is frequently referenced within the electronics industry, a staple of software engineering lexicons, and...
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  • Day on April 1 each year. The day features the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies...
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    Haim Eshed (category People of the Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel))
    that the ufology community wanted to know whether Eshed's account is primary or secondary information: "Either this is some sort of practical joke or publicity...
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    Comedy (redirect from Sense of the comic)
    One-liner joke Blonde jokes Shaggy-dog story Paddy Irishman joke Polish jokes Light bulb jokes Knock-knock joke Stand-up comedy is a mode of comic performance...
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  • Fred and George Weasley (category Fictional members of secret societies)
    Potter's close group of friends. The twins revel in practical jokes and pranks and are generally considered amusing by both the books' characters and readers...
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  • series of crimes and practical jokes apparently drawn from the author's subconscious. It seems probable that somebody wishes to drive him out of his mind...
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    Archived from the original on 2012-01-29. Retrieved 2007-09-05. And Smoot himself can still vividly recall playing a practical joke on his graduate...
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  • American coming-of-age sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro for CBS. The series is a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory...
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  • Creepshow 3 (category Parodies of horror)
    been victims of his practical jokes in the past, they suspect that Kathy is actually a robot, which the professor has supposedly spent the last 20 years...
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  • father, and in the early seasons was often the victim due to his naïveté of some practical joke that Brad and Randy had thought up on the spot for him....
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    Doodles Weaver (category American people of English descent)
    contributor to the Stanford Chaparral humor magazine. He was also known to engage in numerous pranks and practical jokes and earned the nickname "The Mad Monk"...
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  • Lewis White Beck (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    translated several of Immanuel Kant's works, such as the Critique of Practical Reason, and was the author of Studies in the Philosophy of Kant (1965). Born...
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  • Lawrence G. Sager (category Deans of law schools in the United States)
    Sager was the subject of several well-publicized practical jokes during his time as dean, including a 2009 April Fool's Day prank in which the Student Bar...
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  • the phrase rule of thumb refers to an approximate method for doing something, based on practical experience rather than theory. This usage of the phrase...
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  • Canada Translation Bureau. 1997. pp. 233–234. Rapini, Ronald P. (2005). Practical dermatopathology. Elsevier Mosby. ISBN 0-323-01198-5. Webb-Johnson AE...
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  • the original on May 6, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2011. "Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals" by Professor Elizabeth A Murray Report of the...
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    less immediately practical problems, he was surprised by the offers of professorships from other renowned universities, including the Institute for Advanced...
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  • David Ellis (biographer) (category Academics of the University of Kent)
    Practical Jokes: an introduction to the comic in his work (2007). Ellis is the author of two memoirs, Memoirs of a Leavisite: The decline and fall of...
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    Stephan Jenkins (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    appeared on the MTV candid camera show Punk'd when Vanessa Carlton was the subject of one of Ashton Kutcher's practical jokes. He also starred as the lead role...
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